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UPM Celebrates 100-Years of Mfg. at Tennessee Site

Bristol facility grows from a $25 hand-operated tablet machine to a 500,000 square-foot campus

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

UPM Pharmaceuticals is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of pharmaceutical manufacturing occurring at its Bristol, TN, facility. Pharmaceutical products have been continuously manufactured at its current site since 1917. In March 1917, S.E. Massengill purchased the site and transformed it into a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. According to historical records, the Massengill brothers purchased their first piece of manufacturing equipment, a $25 hand-operated tablet machine and began ...

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